Adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside in bone marrow and are maintained in a dormant state within a special microenvironment, their so-called "niche". Detaching from the niche induces cell cycle progression, resulting in a reduction of the reconstitution capacity of HSCs. In contrast, fetal liver HSCs actively divide without losing their stem cell potentials. Thus, it has been unclear what

Despite the maturity reached by targeted proteomic strategies, reliable and standardized protocols are urgently needed to enhance reproducibility among different laboratories and analytical platforms, facilitating a more widespread use in biomedical research. To achieve this goal, the use of dimensionless relative retention times (iRT), defined on the basis of peptide standard retention times (RT)

Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is a bacterial carrier state in the urinary tract that resembles commensalism at other mucosal sites. ABU strains often lack the virulence factors that characterize uropathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains and therefore elicit weak innate immune responses in the urinary tract. In addition, ABU strains are active modifiers of the host environment, which they i

We have established a novel strategy to reduce the risk for recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI), where rapidly increasing antibiotic resistance poses a major threat. Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) protects the host against symptomatic infections with more virulent strains. To mimic this protective effect, we deliberately establish ABU in UTI-prone p

We consider consecutive random subdivision of polygons described as follows. Given an initial convex polygon with d≥3 edges, we choose a point at random on each edge, such that the proportions in which these points divide edges are i.i.d. copies of some random variable ξ. These new points form a new (smaller) polygon. By repeatedly implementing this procedure we obtain a sequence of random polygon

Start with a graph with a subset of vertices called {\it the border}. A particle released from the origin performs a random walk on the graph until it comes to the immediate neighbourhood of the border, at which point it joins this subset thus increasing the border by one point. Then a new particle is released from the origin and the process repeats until the origin becomes a part of the border it

Teologin och pedagogiken hör ihop. I följande artikel visas likheter och olikheter mellan katekestraditionen och de nutida böckerna från Svenska kyrkan. Dessa didaktiskt-metodiska program innebär ett systemskifte i kyrkans undervisning, menar författaren, som sedan 1992 är professor i kyrko- och samfundsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet. Artikeln är en utvidgning av Selanders installationsföreläsnin